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title: Instead of working for his bread he was not ashamed to ask for it ev… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Instead of working for his bread he was not ashamed to ask for it every evening, and to support himself next day on what he had received the night before. Who acts: Alnaschar. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 32

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Instead of working for his bread he was not ashamed to ask for it every evening, and to support himself next day on what he had received the night before.

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**Who acts:** Alnaschar · **What happens:** work, not be, ask, support, receive · **To what, where:** Alnaschar

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alnaschar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:20:32
# text = Instead of working for his bread he was not ashamed to ask for it every evening, and to support himself next day on what he had received the night before.
1	Instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	3	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	before	before	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | gerund | Alnaschar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Alnaschar's bread | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bread=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | Alnaschar |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Alnaschar *not said here* |  |  |  | evening | for bread | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **support** | to-infinitive | Alnaschar *not said here* | Alnaschar |  |  | day |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 5 | **receive** | past · perfect | Alnaschar |  |  |  | night | before *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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